Murder in Wizard's Wood: A Modern High Fantasy Adventure: 1 (Bittergate)

Fey both beautiful and vicious hide in the Georgia backwoods guarded by four-hundred-year-old peanut farmer bootlegger and wizard Jedediah Shine. Protecting humanity and the fey from one another is normally childs play compared to teaching magic to his new foster daughter and a Cherry Coke addicted dragonling parenting an out-of-control half-elven teen sorceress or keeping his jealous elven ex-lover away from his new girlfriend. Jedediahs delicate balancing act is thrown into turmoil when rebellious young centaurs launch a genocidal war against humanity from within his borders. At the same time a vengeful mercenary company lays a trail of suspicious murders directly to Jedediahs door. Unwitting pawns to a deeper menace both serve a centuries-long plot to steal magics deepest secret. The bloody conflict thrusts Jedediahs family into Deaths reach. As the body bag count rises and law enforcement closes in Jedediah is forced to make desperate choices to protect his loved ones and magic itself by stopping the murders in his wood.